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Willful Ignorance - Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum (Hardcover)
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Willful Ignorance - Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum (Hardcover)
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Using ethnographic research, Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the
Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum
examines the attitudes of clergy and lay leaders regarding their
(in)attention to racism as it intersects with the harsh reality of
U.S. immigration policies and practices. This multi-faceted work
begins with a reality check on the scope of forced migration and
its intersection with the historical legacy of racism in America,
including testimonies from displaced migrants and immigration
advocates who help to alleviate state-inflicted suffering at the
U.S.-Mexico border. Helen T. Boursier examines the rationales
Christian leaders use to justify the local church's nominal
response, including the discursive buffers and stall tactics they
use to deflect their lack of preaching, teaching, leadership and/or
ministry with displaced migrants who are their near neighbors. The
Christian church's firm foundation to embody love as social justice
provides a historical rebuttal, while case studies of congregations
that offer displaced migrants compassionate hospitality model
exemplary contemporary response. Closing with practical suggestions
for how to begin building bridges with migrants, Boursier argues
for a philosophy of religion that embraces resistance to racism and
exclusion from asylum, through a missiology of compassion that
exemplifies an ecclesiology of love.
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